PvP Gearing and Transmog Guide for Warlords of Draenor

PvP Gear has become considerably easier to obtain in Warlords of Draenor than it has ever been in any other expansion, with various methods available to acquire it.

Even if you're not interested in PvP, the gear can be useful for achieving item levels for content such as heroic dungeons (610) the anniversary Molten Core LFR (615) or Highmaul LFR (615).

Or, of course, you can use it for transmogrification. The Aspirant's gear, particularly, is extremely easy to get hold of, and the historic restrictions on the purchase of Honor weapons have been removed. We've added 3D models of all the gear below so you can see what you're getting. Note that the two sets of Aspirant's and Combatant's gear are for Alliance and Horde, at the moment one faction cannot get the other faction's gear.

PvP Gear Levels

Warlords of Draenor introduced PvP item scaling to gear. If you wear this gear in a PvE situation, such as questing, dungeons, raids, and the like, it will have a lower item level. If you enter a PvP situation, such as being attacked in the world, a battleground, a skirmish, an arena or Ashran, it will scale up to the higher item level. What's more, all gear is scaled up to a floor item level, so that you are not at a huge gear-based disadvantage in PvP.

The three tiers of gear are laid out below:

Basic Gear: Warlords of Draenor has introduced a new tier of PvP gear -- Primal Aspirant's gear is the "basic" tier at ilvl 600. In PvP, it automatically scales up to ilvl 660. This has a chance to be Warforged, adding 6 ilvls to both numbers.

Honor Gear, so called because it's purchased with , is the next tier up. This season's gear is called Primal Combatant's gear, is ilvl 620 in PvE, and scales to ilvl 675 in PvP. This has a chance to be Warforged, adding 6 ilvls to both numbers.

Conquest Gear, purchased with , is Primal Gladiator's Gear. This epic-quality gear is the top level of PvP gear, excluding purely cosmetic Elite gear. It is item level 660, and scales to ilvl 690 in PvP. Conquest gear cannot be Warforged.

Honor and Basic Gear Models

The models for Honor gear resemble LFR models. The Aspirant's gear uses these same models so it's a really easy set to obtain if you're just looking for it for transmogrification purposes. Browse our transmog set database to learn more about these armor sets and our image gallery of all the PvP weapons.

Conquest Gear Models

Basic Gear Acquisition

Basic gear is acquired from just a few sources, but has an extremely high drop rate from those sources.

Random Battleground Strongboxes: these drop from random battlegrounds whether you win or lose. Strongboxes are awarded at different point levels in battlegrounds, so at 500 points you'll get a Caja fuerte de bronce, 1000 points will award a Caja fuerte de plata and winning the battleground with 1500 points will grant you a Caja fuerte de oro. These strongboxes have a higher chance to award better gear as they increase in quality, so a Gold box is more likely to have Honor-level gear in it, , or maybe even than a Caja fuerte de bronce.

Skirmish Strongboxes: Skirmishes, solo queued unrated arenas, also have a chance to drop Strongboxes, but only if you win. These strongboxes are the same as the Battleground ones, but there's no way to be sure what quality you might get.

Sagrario del gladiador Nivel 2 Work Orders: The Gladiator's Sanctum garrison building is a great source of Aspirant's and Combatant's gear. At level 2, you can place up to 14 Work Orders in exchange for Huesos rotos at a rate of 10 per work order. These work orders are extremely lucrative for players wishing to collect PvP gear, as they award Aspirant's gear at a very high rate, as well as large quantities of and gold. Huesos rotos are awarded from PvP kills on Draenor, at an approximate rate of 4-6 per kill. Unfortunately this means you can't get them from Battlegrounds or Arenas, but you can get them in Ashran. For more information, see our Gladiator's Sanctum Guide.

Honor Gear Acquisition

Honor Gear is acquired from more sources, but with a lower random drop rate than Basic gear. However, Honor points are easy to acquire and can be spent to get Honor gear.

Random Battlegrounds: In addition to the Strongboxes, which are covered below, Random Battlegrounds award Honor Points just for participation. Winning or engaging in a lot of battles will award you more, which makes Random Battlegrounds the fastest way to earn Honor. You can queue into Random Battlegrounds with a premade group of up to 5 people.

Random Battleground Strongboxes: these drop from random battlegrounds whether you win or lose. Strongboxes are awarded at different point levels in battlegrounds, so at 500 points you'll get a Caja fuerte de bronce, 1000 points will award a Caja fuerte de plata and winning the battleground with 1500 points will grant you a Caja fuerte de oro. These strongboxes have a higher chance to award better gear as they increase in quality, so a Caja fuerte de oro is more likely to have Honor-level gear in it, , or maybe even than a Caja fuerte de bronce.

Skirmish Strongboxes: Skirmishes, solo queued unrated arenas, also have a chance to drop Strongboxes, but only if you win. These strongboxes are the same as the Battleground ones, but there's no way to be sure what quality you might get.

Sagrario del gladiador Nivel 2 Work Orders: The Gladiator's Sanctum garrison building is a great source of Honor gear. At level 2, you can place up to 14 Work Orders in exchange for Huesos rotos at a rate of 10 per work order. These work orders award large quantities of and gold, as well as having a chance to award Honor gear that can be Warforged. Huesos rotos are awarded from PvP kills on Draenor, at an approximate rate of 4-6 per kill. Unfortunately this means you can't get them from Battlegrounds or Arenas, but you can get them in Ashran. For more information, see our Gladiator's Sanctum Guide.

Ashran: Completing objectives on Ashran has a chance to award Honor Points. Fragmento de artefacto can also be turned in at any of the Artifact Fragment NPCs in the Ashran Staging Area for Honor Points at a 1-1 ratio, so farming those in the side areas of Ashran is a good source of Honor. You can also use a Máquina voladora de bolsillo desechable to hand them in automatically. Beware - if you are looted by a player they'll take half your fragments!

Conquest Gear Acquisition

Conquest Gear, while it has a very low chance to be awarded from Strongboxes, is mostly acquired with

Rated Arenas: Rated Arenas are the most popular way to earn . Each arena win will award 180 Conquest Points up to the weekly cap of 1500 (1700 with the extra 200 for "winning" Ashran). Increasing your rating above 1597 will increase the weekly cap available to you.

Rated Battlegrounds: Rated Battlegrounds allow you to earn more Conquest Points -- 400 per win, and between 0 and 200 per loss, depending how close it was. However, they're less popular than arenas, as they require a premade group of 10 to enter. The weekly cap for Rated Battlegrounds was higher than the Rated Arena cap in Mists of Pandaria, but in Warlords of Draenor they're the same -- you can collect your initial 1500 Conquest Points however you want.

Rated Battlegrounds also have a chance to award a piece of Conquest gear from your first three wins per week, but you can only win one piece per week.

Weapon - if you already have a Freedom trinket or play a Human this should be your first purchase as it will have the greatest impact on your performance. For Honor points, the "season total earned" requirement has been removed, meaning they can be bought far more quickly than in previous seasons. Shields and off-hands cost 0 Honor Points (currently 0 for a tank shield but this is likely to be fixed)

Main Hands cost 0 for Strength and Agility classes and 0 for Intellect classes who use 1250 shields and offhands

2-hands cost 0 for all classes.

After you have your weapon and Freedom trinket, the second trinket should be purchased, as it's likely to give you a good amount of a useful stat.

Next, start building your 2-set and 4-set. Look at all the bonuses and consider what's right for you. Note: In Warlords, Honor and Conquest gear has been introduced that does not have set bonuses but has different secondary stats. This can be useful for different specs, and you should build around those pieces.

Finally, supplement your set with off-set pieces. Note: The Legendary Quest 680 ring is better than all but the Conquest rings (scale to 690), even with the scaling, so unless the stats available are far better for your spec on the Honor gear, the Legendary Quest ring is a better choice.

Note: If you're a healer, you may want to consider off-set pieces like rings, cloaks and necks as a higher priority than your set bonus, depending on your mana regeneration and the quality of your set bonuses. These pieces are the only ones with Spirit on them.

Comentarios

Comentario de laroyy

i like the new looking DK warrior shamy and warlock gear becasue it really stands out for there name of a DK and warrior etc

Comentario de lilyjane

on 2014-12-05T14:06:46-06:00

This is an amazing guide! I had heard that pvp gear was easier to get in Warlords form a friend but this guide spells it out so well!

I will be doing all these things as I want to start to try WoW pvp for the first time in Ashran!

Comentario de jdgaynor

on 2014-12-05T14:10:40-06:00

Cap starts at 1500 with 200 bonus points coming from clearing Ashran.

Comentario de oliviadgrace

on 2014-12-05T14:12:05-06:00

Cap starts at 1500 with 200 bonus points coming from clearing Ashran.

I literally just made this edit! Thanks for pointing it out.

Comentario de kurema

on 2014-12-05T14:48:24-06:00

Gearing up is so much easier now, at least as far as getting the honor gear. By using the gladiator's sanctum and a bit of BG farming I was able to gear up both my Ret and Holy sets on my paladin in record time. Getting the conquest gear is still time gated unless you can reach higher ratings, which is fine. Does kind of suck that it will take around 3 weeks to get my first piece of conquest though since I'm grabbing my weapon first.

Overall should be a great season once some of the balance issues are ironed out.

Comentario de cawaker

on 2014-12-05T15:13:48-06:00

super concise, thank you!

Comentario de Cielos

on 2014-12-05T15:31:21-06:00

Love the guide and will definitely use it as a reference. :)

However, you might want to mention the Timeless Solium Band you get through the legendary quest line is probably better than the basic PVP rings, as it has the ilevel of 680, while the basic gear only scales to 675. It is better for me, at least as a healer.

Comentario de oliviadgrace

on 2014-12-05T15:55:04-06:00

Love the guide and will definitely use it as a reference. :)

However, you might want to mention the Timeless Solium Band you get through the legendary quest line is probably better than the basic PVP rings, as it has the ilevel of 680, while the basic gear only scales to 675. It is better for me, at least as a healer.

Good point, thanks for thinking of it and posting! I will add this in as a note :)

Comentario de Axelios

on 2014-12-05T16:08:49-06:00

You can get the 1500 conquest points from arenas, bgs, and whatever else. But ashran and gladiator sanctum work orders can give you that last 200

Comentario de K21Nova

on 2014-12-05T16:29:58-06:00

You can get ilvl 600 (660) pieces from strongboxes when you lose, ilvl 620 (675) pieces from strongboxes when you win as well as from the honor vendor, and ilvl 626 (681) pieces from strongboxes when you win, if they roll Warforged.

Comentario de WoWMarketeer

on 2014-12-05T16:40:57-06:00

Olivia nailed it with the comment about the ring. Great guide and very helpful!

Comentario de oliviadgrace

on 2014-12-05T16:45:19-06:00

You can get ilvl 600 (660) pieces from strongboxes when you lose, ilvl 620 (675) pieces from strongboxes when you win as well as from the honor vendor, and ilvl 626 (681) pieces from strongboxes when you win, if they roll Warforged.

Yep, I've also got 620 pieces when losing and 600 pieces when winning, though. It doesn't seem an exact science, more RNG-based!

Comentario de oliviadgrace

on 2014-12-05T16:45:41-06:00

You can get the 1500 conquest points from arenas, bgs, and whatever else. But ashran and gladiator sanctum work orders can give you that last 200

Yep, this is noted in the guide already!

Comentario de nes2world

on 2014-12-05T20:55:12-06:00

I'd like to add something that happened to me couple of days ago:

I joined the queue for Ashran, after some time we killed the Horde leader and I've got the box. Since my PvE spec is prot and retri is offspec for PvP, I opened the box with loot specialization on prot.

Pro tip: Put your loot specialization on CURRENT SPECIALIZATION when you're opening the box or whatever spec you want to possibly get loot for.

Comentario de DrHavocMD

on 2014-12-05T21:10:46-06:00

You also get a piece of conquest gear if you win the highmaul coliseum(gladiator sanctum level 3). However, if you don't play DK or feral druid you might have a hard time winning it.

Comentario de yourjsh

on 2014-12-05T22:40:28-06:00

Is strongbox low chance drop for conquest gear confirmed?

Comentario de warbreed

on 2014-12-05T23:44:41-06:00

Although indirectly mentioned in the article, if you are looking to gear up as fast as possible, do random BG's but do not spend the honor until you have capped at 4k. This will prevent you from buying gear that you later get from the reward boxes. If you do get an item you bought with honor recently, always see if you can sell back the piece you just bought.

Comentario de mamamu91

on 2014-12-06T03:40:26-06:00

You can get the 1500 conquest points from arenas, bgs, and whatever else. But ashran and gladiator sanctum work orders can give you that last 200

NOT true! Yesterday i capped with arena to 1500 then did one ashran and get 50 and then when i opened the done work orders there was 100conquest points but i was not able to loot them coz i was capped. (1500/1500)

Comentario de Chiad

on 2014-12-06T04:42:08-06:00

I am missing two aditional things for RBGs.You also get 0-200 Conquest Points per lose and you get the chance to win a piece of Conquest Gear on the first win per week (it is rolled similar to the personal loot system in LFR in Pandaria ).

Comentario de Sincendiary

on 2014-12-06T07:33:27-06:00

As of today the conquest weapons are still gated by season earnings of 7250 conquest so you might want to plan around that.